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Sometimes you have to “go backwards in order to go forwards.” This the central idea behind Sandi Tan’s “Shirkers,” a brilliant new documentary on Netflix that explores friendship, betrayal and the joys and costs of cinephilia. “Shirkers” is a documentary about another “Shirkers,” a wildly

Gallery ABBA’s latest show, “Lore,” arrived just in time for Halloween. “Lore” opened on Friday, Oct. 26, and features the illustrations of self described “witch fanatic and Halloween junkie,” Brenden Haskins. “Lore’s” opening was a success both artistically and financially, as all but two of

George A. Romero’s zombie film, Night of the Living Dead, premiered exactly 50 years ago, today, on October 1, 1968. A film both of and ahead of its time, Living Dead helped birth the modern horror genre, while simultaneously offering the year’s most biting criticism

On Saturday, Sept. 15, I had the pleasure of interviewing Chicago-based blues and rock artist, Melody Angel, right before her fantastic Folk and Blues performance. Here’s what she had to say about life, music, politics, and the stickers that cover her purple Stratocaster. NK: So

The fourth and final #GetWoke panel of the 2018 Spring Semester took place Friday, April 6, at the packed Richardson Auditorium, in Morse-Ingersoll. Titled “Re-Imagining New Futures,” the panel was sponsored by the Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusiveness (OADI) and the Weissberg Foundation and

An adorable man with a hat is staring with pleasure at the rising sun as it peeks out of the ocean. As he continues to watch, however, the orange glob of gas stretches upwards to reveal that in fact it’s not a star at all,

Public school teachers in all 55 counties of West Virginia have been on strike since February 22nd, with Friday March 2nd marking the seventh day of school closures across the state. The strike began after Jim Justice, the state’s billionaire governor, signed legislation which promised

Twenty-two minutes into David Lowery’s film, A Ghost Story, Casey Affleck — the bearded and introverted Hollywood signifier of perpetual little brotherhood and purported sexual harassment — stands in obscurity beneath a white sheet of halloweenesque spectrehood. He is dead, a ghost trapped in a

“Double double, toil and trouble…” So say William Shakespeare’s Three Weird Sisters, whose words aptly describe the tremendous preparation currently under way for this year’s production of Macbeth, directed by John Kaufmann. Kaufmann’s cast and crew have been working on Macbeth for the better part